|
Google's Android is the most widely used
operating system among mobile phone makers.
With the launch of Mini 8, Opera aims to lift its smartphone
user base to 275 million by 2017 from the current 130 million,
increasing the total to 350 million when including around 75
million users of less advanced feature phones.
The purpose of using Mini, which has become particularly popular
in many developing countries, is both to speed up online surfing
and to cut costs, as the browser can compress data by up to 90
percent.
Smartphone customers generally do much more online surfing,
making them far more valuable than users of feature phones
although Opera Software doesn't give revenue figures per user.
"It's complicated, we have customers in 200 countries and more
and more of them are using smartphones and fewer are on feature
phones," Opera investor relations chief Petter Lade told
Reuters.
"Our target is to have 275 million smart phones and 75 million
on feature phones, this will be our total target for mobile
users for 2017," he added.
(Reporting by Ole Petter Skonnord, editing by Terje Solsvik)
[© 2015 Thomson Reuters. All rights
reserved.] Copyright 2015 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
 |
|
